Monday, April 20, 2009
No Tech Tapeworms Here! We Update Voices Policies on All Things Digital.
As of today, we have made important changes to the All Things Digital Voices section.
Why? Well, a few weeks ago, ATD was caught up in a bit of the controversy that broke out due to louder-than-usual complaints by several traditional media companies about how their content is treated on the Web.
Without going into a long explanation: They expressed displeasure that some sites were misusing their content via aggregation. Those complaining included the editor-in-chief of Dow Jones, which owns this site.
The ensuing debate made us realize we needed to be a lot clearer and more explicit about what we are doing in our Voices section, which includes short excerpts of third-party content from outside our site, and to make those policies more prominent and transparent.
Some will disagree with the changes we have made and some will not think they go far enough. But we hope we have addressed the key issues.
